Church History 7.21.8

Eusebius of Caesarea · Church History · ca. 300–325 · Caesarea · Read in context

Summary: The air itself is poisoned by the stench of the dead.

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Greek text · Dindorf 4:318

ἢ πότε ὁ τεθολωμένος “ὑπὸ τῶν πονηρῶν πανταχόθεν ἀναθυμιάσεων ἀὴρ “εἰλικρινὴς γένοιτο; τοιοῦτοι γὰρ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἀτμοὶ, “καὶ ἀπὸ θαλάσσης ἄνεμοι, ποταμῶν τε αὖραι καὶ “λιμένων ἀνιμήσεις ἀποπνέουσιν, ὡς σηπομένων ἐν “πᾶσι τοῖς ὑποκειμένοις στοιχείοις νεκρῶν ἰχῶρας “εἶναι τὰς δρόσους.

English · Claude translation

Or when could the air, fouled by evil exhalations from every side, become pure? For such vapours rise from the earth, winds from the sea, breezes from the rivers, and mists from the harbours, that the dews are the discharges of corpses rotting in all the underlying elements.

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Dindorf 4:318 · Wilhelm Dindorf, ed., Eusebii Caesariensis Opera, vol. 4: Historiae ecclesiasticae libri I–X (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871) · Greek text: W. Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1871), digitized by the First Thousand Years of Greek project (Open Greek and Latin), CC BY-SA 4.0

Text

As printed in Dindorf, Eusebii Opera 4. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.

Translation

Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Greek text of Dindorf, Eusebii Caesariensis Opera 4 (Teubner, 1871); made independently of existing English translations.

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 1 (1890) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made)

Extrabiblical texts

Dionysius of Alexandria (Dionysius of Alexandria (letters and fragments)) · quotation, high confidence

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Quotation from Dionysius of Alexandria.

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.21.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/21/8/).

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Eusebius, Hist. eccl. 7.21.8 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/eusebius-historia/7/21/8/).

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